I have one that says "his nose was full of snot."

I'm not kidding.  I'm told to type it verbatim and what he says is what he gets.

Eeeuuww. 

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Only need to get paper products and fish. I have lots of tuna, Spam, canned chicken, sardines, corned beef hash, etc.

Got our veggie seeds last week.

Stocking up on more canned veggies and fresh veggies, mostly potatoes, as soon as I can. Potaoes last quite a while in our cold room, which is an extra bedroom with no heat. Also want to get extra bread. Love homemake bread, but DH doesn't like it for sandwiches, so I have to get store-bought bread for that. I can still buy bread at my local produce store at 2 for $1.75 and it freezes very well. In spring, it used to cost 2 for $1.25, but that's still cheaper than other places.

I'm not doing this because of what's coming. I'm doing it because I've done it for years, but usually in the fall. This fall I could only buy a few things at a time because DH not working, so I figure another month, I'll be back to normal.

Got full of myself when I lost the weight....I had gone from 210 to 158 and really got so full of myself for a period of time...started wearing dresses and heels and all that stuff *LOL*

professional people who strive to be as accurate as possible in what they do.  I just figured they'd want to know.  You never know when you're going to be called upon to type that next national security document that needs to reference a Navy SEAL and you'd want to be correct, wouldn't you?

Yes, now I'm being silly.  

 room and board and books paid to Stanford University. She had very good grades and we filled out the FAFSA. They gave a huge financial package to her becuase of our income, which is middle class, but so many people who go there have higher incomes that we qualified for quite a bit of aid. You should apply to whatever school you want to go to because you never know how much they will offer. She also has taken out the PLUS loan for the last 3 years, but the total will be less than half a year of tuition.She is a junior this year and we are so glad she didn't let financial worry keep her from applying to the university she dreamed about. Good luck.

back and forth free for all, you also don't know me personally to make assumptions about my personality. This has gotten old quickly, so I'll leave with these thoughts.

You expressed an opinion saying you were ill about her treatment which you thought was above and beyond.

I expressed an opinion, in turn, basically saying if you were in her situation you would want that same protection, considering it's very plausible that it's the obsessive fans and need to know that probably put her in this situation.

Opinions are opinions, facts are facts, and considering all the information any of us knows come from cutthroat reporters who are looking to make that big story, it would be rare if anyone knew any true story about a celeb.

I know if I were famous and hounded by people 24/7, and having a mental breakdown to boot, you can bet your bippy I'd do whatever in my power to make sure I had nobody around who could violate my privacy any more than it had already been violated.

As for the doctors getting suspended, if they weren't on her case, and it's not a teaching hospital, and if she has security, then it's for a reason, and they should have known better than to violate her privacy. Doctors can violate HIPAA just as easily as anyone else, and that's what they were doing, because it's also very possible that those same docs who just wanted a quick peek, probably couldn't keep it to themselves, or they wouldn't have been nosing in her business in the first place. They got less than they deserved.

Walk a mile in her shoes. Have sympathy and compassion in your heart for those who need it, which she obviously does!

If I eat wheat or oatmeal (I can't have rye or barley either, but it usually isn't something I am exposed to) I feel like I can't breathe for a couple of hours, my belly bloats up, I start tooting like a banchi and then I can't leave the house until all diarrhea leaves me.  It is TMI, but celiac stools are yellow to chalky gray, even white, NOT normal and are extremely foul as well. 

What this can do to you is make you anemic.  You can have malnutrition from never being able to absorb the good stuff in your food.  You might be either very thin or rather overweight, but you always feel horrible, no energy, tired.  Food never makes you feel better, no matter how hungry you are and how much/little you eat.

Celiac sprue is considered an autoimmune at this point.  The body can't digest the gluten (a type of protein) in wheat, barley or rye.  Oatmeal has gluten, but it is chemically different from the others mentioned here.  Some celiacs can eat it, some cannot; I cannot.  You can't eat any Quaker products because they are all severely cross contaminated and will make you sick.  What happens when you eat gluten all the time, is that the villi in the intestines flatten and/or fall off.  Their surfaces exchange nutrients from the gut into the body.  If they are not present or not functional, it dimishes absorption by 80%.  On the other hand, celiacs who go on a gut healing diet will have their villi return to a healthy state (about 90% of celiacs recover the lining of the gut).

If you have another AI, you have to know that celiac likes to piggyback with other AI disorders, particularly SLE and Sjorgen's.  Also, it is believed that 2/3 of celiacs are concurrently lactose intolerant and/or allergic to dairy.  It is estimated that in the US about 1:150 people is a celiac, whereas 1:4500 will be diagnosed during their lifetime. 

Never fear, however...gone are the days of rice cakes and hard rice bread!  There are many many books on making gluten free bread with bean and alternative grain flours.  There is plenty on the internet too.  The best book I can recommend is "The Allergy Survival Guide" by Melina, Stepaniak and Aronson.  It is everything free...no animal products, eggs, dairy, nuts, fish, shellfish, wheat, yeast, soy...and the recipes are DIVINE. 

The best part is that since going on a GF diet last summer I rarely have a day when I am tired and feel crappy, as long as I behave.  I have lost about 40 lbs with no effort, unless you call eating fruit, veggies, soy and beans constantly in as large a quantity as I like, an effort. I have been able to add some GF desserts back into my diet and not gain weight.  I also have SLE and I am on 7.5 mg of prednisone every day (weaning to 5 mg).  Despite doing a 2-month loading dose of prednisone to get the SLE under control last summer, I dropped 18 lbs the first month on it and another 10 the next month and we all know what pred can do to your waistline.

I'll go and make my polenta crust pizza for supper and enjoy the fact that I won't feel sick after I eat and it will taste wonderful.